Charles Stewart Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846-6 October 1891) was an Anglo-Irish MP from County Cork who was a leader of the Irish nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party.

Biography
Charles Stewart Parnell was born in Avondale, County Wicklow, Ireland to a Protestant Anglo-Irish landowning family, and he entered the House of Commons in 1875. Parnell agitated for home reform and, after 1880, Irish home rule, and he balanced radical issues with parliamentary and economic issues. Parnell represented the Irish Parliamentary Party in British politics, and he supported William Ewart Gladstone and the UK Liberal Party due to its support of home rule in the empire. His enemies would forge documents tying him to the murders of Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin in 1882. However, these allegations were later proven to be false, although a sex scandal ruined his reputation. He died in 1891, and his party fractured.